SONY Vegas on Windows 7 Home Premium

[Alfie Gale]

Anything will work; but differently on different machines.

I used to have an afwul system (much worse than the suggested) and it ran Movie Studio 9 badly. Now I have an i7 which runs it fantastically. I would say that with Vegas MS 9 on that system it will run just fine but the more effects, etc you add to the clips will result in a more stutty video preview and slower lag.

Just my two cents.

Alfie

[Carlton Rahmani]

I had Sony Vegas 7 running on my old XP (32-bit) laptop, which had only 2Gb of RAM. When I tried installing it on my new Windows 7 laptop, didn’t run–driver issues–and didn’t think it would.
I know Vegas 9 is available 32 and 62-bit versions, maybe 8 is also. If he’s just learning, and likes Vegas, maybe you could recommend he tries out the ‘Platinum’ version, which he can get new for a fraction of Pro’s price. Not all the bells and whistles, but, from my own perspective, a consumer NLE is a great way to get your feet wet.
Hope this helps.

[Matt Crowley]

Vegas Movie Studio 9 can still be found for relatively cheap. With that spec of PC, standard definition editing (DVD quality) should be OK but HD video editing will be really slow – HDV might be OK for simple projects but not AVCHD, which requires a pretty beefy PC to work smoothly on any software.

If you don’t need HD editing, the basic Movie Studio (9 or 10) will do fine and is cheap. If you need HD capability, then you need either Platinum edition. Version 10 has some improvements in HD performance and a couple of extra features, but for getting started and simple projects, Movie Studio 9 (or platinum if you need HD) should suffice.

According to Sony’s website, Movie Studio 9 and 10 will run under Win7 but earlier versions aren’t supported.

[Stephen Trombley]

Thanks. Platinum edition seems the way for him to go.

[Stephen Trombley]

Thanks

[Stephen Trombley]

Thanks, Alfie.